 If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly and understand the subtleties of all the arts and sciences as well as sons. Part I, ch. 27, p. 63.

 It should be repeated that the English and Scots, when they meet in battle, fight hard and show great staying-power. They do not spare themselves, but go on to the limits of endurance. They are not like the Germans, who make one attack and then, if they see that they cannot break into the enemy and beat him, all turn back in a body.Book 3, p. 345.

 That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. Anatole France, L'Étui de nacre: Le Procurateur de Judée [Mother of Pearl: The Procurator of Judea] (1892).

 If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly and understand the subtleties of all the arts and sciences as well as sons. Part I, ch. 27, p. 63.